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Helios
Espera LP
Ghostly International (GILP425)
Release date: Aug 11, 2023
The album opener, “Fainted Fog,” reintroduces this fuller, panoramic version of Helios. Woozy synths give way to a propulsive drum pattern as the track’s characteristics populate in the haze. A piano plays between the beat, and another synth solos overtop, ascending towards the peak with an exhale of live kicks and looping guitar. For every bold moment on Espera, there are more muted, counter-balancing stretches; “Intertwine” offers one of the most meditative. Strums mingle with keys in the front half before the beat returns to deliver a hypnotic nod.
Kenniff sees each song as integral to the whole — “if you took one out, it would be like tearing a page from a book,” he says — but still functional independently, like a series of self-contained epics. “All The While” best represents this intention; a song in three equal parts constructed on a resonant drum sequence. Shimmering synth notes surface first, then pastoral guitar and piano flutters, converging at the end to evaporate into the ether.
A1
Fainted Fog
A2
Intertwine
A3
All The While
A4
Every Time
A5
Lineoa
B1
A Familiar Place
B2
Lowland
B3
Well Within
B4
Emeralds (Ft Hollie Kenniff)
B5
Rounds





